Apparatus for setting rubber tires.



No. 718,148. PATENTED'JAN. 13, 1903.

I F. A. ORGUTT.

APPARATUS FOR SETTING RUBBER TIRES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 16, 1901.

NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIC A. ORCUTT, OF FLORENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR SET TING RUBBER TIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,148, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed November 16, 1901. Serial No. 82,561. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIC A. ORCUTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Florence, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Setting Rubber Tires, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for s'etting rubber tires, and more particularly to such apparatus designed to bring the ends of the rubber tires together preparatory to uniting the same.

With these and other objects in view my invention resides in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts and in the various details thereof, as will be first fully pointed out in the specification and then claimed.

In the drawings forming a partof this specification and in which like symbolsof reference represent corresponding parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a View of the apparatus in its operative position. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of the operating-lever and the roller-carrying bracket connected to the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional transverse view of the bracket and roller; Fig. 4;, a View of the wire-clamp for holding the ends of the wires, and Fig. 5 a view of the slipping band adapted to be placed under the rubber tire.

1 represents the lever for operating the device, the same resting on a standard or the like 2, the top of said standard forming a fulcrum for the lever and being protected from wear by a piece of round iron flattened at the ends and bent down onto the sides of the standard, where it is secured by screws.

3 represents angular arm-pieces forming a bracket fastened to the sides of the. lever by suitable bolts and formed with hooks 4 on their upper ends and a roller 6, journaled in the bottom portions of the same.

5 represents a bridge-piece formed with perforation 7, and 8 short holes drilled partly through the bar to receive the ends of wires 6. The wires 6 are first secured in perforations 12, formed below the bead, flange, or overlapping portion 11 of the slipping band 10, the free ends of said wires being adapted to be bent into the perforations 8, as already described. The wires enter holes 12 from inside of slipping band and are bent up at outside. The object of hem is to prevent wires from tearing out at edge.

ll is a notch or depression formed in the lever, the object of the same being to engage the top of the standard 2, and thus form a hinge-like connection with the same.

The operation of the device is as follows: The slipping band is placed about the tire, bridge-piece is engaged to ends of wires, and tire placed in channel and attached as desired. The lever and standard are then placed in position and wheel revolved toward place of joining ends. As the wheel is thus revolved a strain on the lever is exerted, and this has a tendency to liberate the rubber and allows the roller to press it toward the place of joining the ends. The bridge-piece is preferably formed with three or more holes to accommodate it to various widths of tires.

The slipping band is of great advantage over wires or the like, for the reason that wires cut the rubber in old tires and often cut the canvas in new tires or tires that have been slightly used. With my device this objection is obviated, and the roller as the rubber is liberated presses the rubber toward the place of joining.

The wires and slipping band are of such material that they may be used many times. The hem 11 maybe turned back to facilitate removal of band after operation.

After operating one wire is partly straightened at the hole in hand without removing either wire from bridge-piece. The band is then drawn out byother wire, so that to replace band on another tire it is only necessary to engage the wire released, the other wire not having been removed.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,.is-

1. A rubber-tire adjuster, comprising a le ver arranged substan tially radial to the wheel, a slipping band adapted to be placed under the tire and having side extensions having alined perforations for a pair of wires connecting the band to the lever, and on which wires it may oscillate under the action of the lever and the pressure of the tire.

2. In a device of the character described, a slipping band formed with a hem and perforations, a support acting as a fulcrum for the lever, a roller-carrying bracket connected to the slipping band, and a bridge-piece adapted to be received by the hook-like ends of the lever.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FREDERIO A. ORCUTT.

Witnesses:

RoBT. F. PARSONS, HARVEY B. OROUTT. 

